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24 sats \ 2 replies \ @beyond_turbulence 22h \ on: Purpose of Education Education
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Foundation Bricks (Raw Potential) → “Students arrive like unshaped clay, ready to be stacked.”
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Mortar of Metrics (Numbers Obfuscate) → “GPAs, tests, and analytics glue the chaos into neat towers.”
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Scaffold & Formwork (Guided Pathways) → “Elevators of rules and procedures keep the structure upright and predictable.”
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Load-Bearing Columns (Global Principles) → “Big ideas hold up the skyline; each curriculum brick supports the next.”
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Finishing Facade (Student as Output) → “Graduates emerge polished, quantifiable, and aligned with the grid—beautiful, unbendable, Manhattan-ready.”
Somewhere inside, the human spirit is like a hidden room behind reinforced concrete—mostly inaccessible, but definitely still there.
Great analogies. It was a pleasure to read and digest. You must have put a lot of thought into thinking into education
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Building a Company: Roy O. Disney and the Creation of an Entertainment Empire by Bob Thomas ‘(education is a dirty word)
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